The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC.
The Potter and Her Leap Into
Fame.
PAUsr's FIVE HUNDREDFH.
A Reluctant Joining In With the
Swim Theatrical and Musical
Chit Chat.

Swim -TheatrIcaI and MusicaI
Chit Chat.
A dearth OF news theatrical at home
this week, sends the gaze off towards
the eastern horizon, there perchance to
discern some morsel that may suffice
in place of the home dishes which OF
late have been served so plenteously.
In the east, one star looms up so
portentously in the heavens, as to over
shadow and crowd out every other
shining orb. There is nothing to be
seen or heard of in New York just now
but Mrs. James Brown Potter and her
debut. The profession she has entered
with growls not loud, but deep, resent
her intrusion, and point her to the foot
of the ladder, from whence they have
come up through years of tribulation.
The critics all decry that sort OF thing,
YOU know" and say if one may leap
into fame in single day, what becomes
of all the traditions of the art, OF the
toll, the tears, the trials, the suffering
and the slow steps by which the actor
from time immemorial has been made?
But all the same, the critics go on
helping the Potter boom by exhaustive
notices, and-for lack of better topic
we reluctantly ioin hands and go in
with he swim. We venture no opinion
of our own but as you pays your
money" Tor if you don't the business
Office is open from am. till 8 pm.
daily
"And You Takes Your Choice"
NOT GRACEFUL OR FASCINATING.
The World.
She is a pretty woman, with fragile
and by no means sensuous figure, an
intelligent face and head of beautiful
bronze hair. 1t cannot be said that she
is graceful or fascinating ii action, but
she is Iadylike. Sic is neither as robust
nor as tall as Langtry, but she has a
soft, Womanly charm of ideality that is
not seen in Langtry's vital beauty, and
she was dressed in a simple 1uxurianGe
that caught the eye.
GRACEFUL IN POSE AND GESTURE.
The Herald.
Though graceful in pose, and often SO
in gesture, she lacks somewhat in sim
pliCity in all she does.
MOVES HER ARMS CLUMsILY.
The Times.
She has not yet overcome the tend
ency to move her arms clumsily, and is
not yet proficient IN the use of gesture
to emphasize or iIlumine the meaning
of her text.
DEFIEs STAGE POWDER.
The Journal,
1t is beauty of face that it is hard to
describe, for mobility is one of its
charms, and it can defy the disheVel-
stage powder.
TOO MUCH BLACK AND RED.
The Star.
Mrs. Potter is so young and good
Looking that it seems unfortunate she
should have been taught to make up so
much with black and red. Undoubtedly
she will improve in every particular.
UNABLE TO SHOW HER EMOTIONS.
The Herald.
If the lady will give more variety to
her delivery. for at times she was dis
tressingly monotonous, she will make
an even better impression than she did
last night. She also was at times IN
able to show by the expression of her
face her emotions.
EFFECTIVE IN EXPRESSION.
The Times.
She expressed the various emotions
effectively with her neWly-acquired
skill, though not with equal strength in
8ll the scenes.
no EXPRESSION.
The World.
She has no variation of facial ex-
pression she cannot thrill with her
own emotions She is too salf-conscious
to lose herself for a moment in her
work.
BRILLIANT FUTURE.
The Journal.
Her acting, about which so much
curiosity existed, proves to be much
better than we we're led to suppose.
Her voice is good and her tones clear,
though she apparently cultivates the
French failing, giving a nasal tone to
love passages. There is 8 little too
much of the tragedy queen in her man
ner for a modern play with occasional
slightly humorous situations. She is
apt to be little stilted, in fact, and is
Unconscious, though not to q disa-
greeable degree. She is very graceful; |
your thin women lend themselves to
this easily, and as she is earnest. pains
taking, intelligent and beautiful, she
has brilliant future before her.
NO FITNESS FOR THE STAGE.
The World.
She made her appearance in a la
mentally puerile play and she kept
strictly abreast of its puerility il not of
its wesrisomeness, and never for one
moment broke the surface of IT'S duIJ